disorient

To add a touch of mystery, contestants will travel and sleep on a coach with blacked-out windows to disorient them.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

The commander, known on the battlefield as Oleksandr, flips a switch to activate the jammer which interferes with the drone’s radar; it’s the equivalent of shining a bright light in someone’s eye to disorient them.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

The story uses sporadic live-action scenes to unnerve and disorient players and make them question whether they can really trust what they’re seeing.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

“The Willows” instead aims to disorient the audience, through improvisation and light games, until the mystery centers on us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.

From The Flying Saucers are Real by Keyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward)

Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Goldin disorients the reader by deploying multiple timelines — the present, several days ago and two years earlier, when Liv told the police she was being harassed by a stalker.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020

The best historical fiction disorients us by demonstrating the uncanny nature of the past — a world like and not like ours, woven through with strands of ancient DNA.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020

The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Mary is disoriented and desperate, and the mere sight of her assures Sam that whatever favor Mary asks for, Sam can attach strings to.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

“I was disoriented at first. It’s hard to step out of that go-go mentality.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Staff described the situation as heartbreaking, noting the puppy appeared scared and disoriented but was fortunate to have found its way to safety.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

The woman appears to have tried to lead the disoriented animal away from the shopping street.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

I do what he says and immediately become disoriented.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But the expectations after a year-defining hit were real, if subtly disorienting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Finding solutions to math problems at an accelerating pace this way is exciting, if a bit disorienting.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

It’s a disorienting sight for newcomers who have just passed gas pumps and rows of soda and Slim Jims and tugged on various cooler doors in search of the secret handle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

"I can’t," I begin, but I feel more people pressing in, more voices asking for help; it's confusing and disorienting and everyone's faces are dark and shadowed.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse